Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Why, in our current environment, is there confusion around these two terms and does what makes a strong leader still exist? Simply put, leadership is the art of inspiring, motivating, empowering, supporting, and assuring a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. Your organization will be able to survive quite a beating.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

In some ways, COVID waved a magic wand, enabling many employees to change their work environments overnight. And since humans, like businesses, evolve over time, the healthiest work environments change in concert with their occupants and the general state of the world.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 30, 2019

If people are making sexist or racist jokes or comments, whether in formal meeting settings or during casual conversations, that creates a less inclusive environment. However, there are subtler behaviours that are key to creating an inclusive environment that leaders should embrace. As a result, those businesses will thrive as well.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 2, 2019

A leader with a strong heartfelt voice builds high levels of relatedness to a common purpose, and then amplifies this by fostering an environment of mutual care and respect amongst an inner circle. Unlike ‘friendship relationships’, the mutual care is not person-specific. Rather, the mutual care extends equally to every member of the team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In the work environment, Zoom sessions have replaced conference room meetings, and email exchanges have replaced in-person interactions. The office environment has changed. In a short span, a lot has changed in the world, and how we work, socialize, and lead. What is a compassionate and concerned leader to do?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Considering that it can take two people half a day to get clear on a question as trivial as what to eat for dinner, it’s no wonder that many feel that the complexity of the organizational environment makes clarity seem impossible. Here are six traps to watch out for: You’re in the dark.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Honoring the Environment Ask your employees to contribute to a better world. Find ways to protect the environment both in and out of the office. Simply asking your employees to turn off all of the lights before leaving can make a huge difference in energy conservation and how they feel about the environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 30, 2020

However, these are only successful strategies in an environment which has a predictable and stable workflow. The Time Management model fits a traditional manufacturing environment, but can be counter-productive in the new world of flexible working and responsiveness to client needs.

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APRIL 23, 2020

Their old beliefs that no longer serve them have been tested, discarded and new, updated beliefs have been adopted; they commit and make decisions; they take inspired action; they take the momentum they create and sustain it; they have an awareness of their environments—from their emotional to their physical environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In my opinion, the use of the F word has no place in any work environment. This one depends on type of work environment (outdoors vs. indoors), type of work (physical labor vs. office work) and proximity to co-workers and customers. I’m talking about dropping “F-bombs” at work. I happen to disagree. Too much aftershave or perfume.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2019

And in today’s turbulent and tough business environment, do we expect any less than this? Let’s also remember that corporate environments sap confidence from our people on a daily basis – another reason to make it a focus. It’s also relevant to all of your employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The enterprise environment is evolving and in order to succeed within it leaders’ styles are changing too. This attitude from leaders promotes an inclusive environment in which they themselves are integrated at the core and from where they lead. In the emerging “Future-of-Work” settings, it is employee egos that matter, not the CEO's.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 19, 2011

If you are a manager, and you’ve chartered one of these things, you’ve taken the lazy way out of doing what you’re supposed to do as a leader, that is, create an energizing environment. However, you can create an environment where a natural sense of fun is allowed to emerge on its own. BTW, I’ve seen managers pick these committees….it’s

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

Mayo and his team focused on two groups – a control group which operated in an unchanging work environment, and a test group which endured the changes to their working conditions, including lighting, such as working hours, rest breaks, food offered during breaks, etc. What do you pay attention to in your work environment?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Changing your environment and getting away to think about the important and not the urgent can allow you to see things in a different light. All of the very successful leaders today understand the value of taking time away from the work environment. Turn off electronics, and get out of your normal environment.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

3) Fostering Safe and Supportive Work Environments People want to feel safe, secure, and supported, in life and at work. Foster an environment that builds trust by practicing being vulnerable, which is a deep human quality that supports relationship building. This is a great way to create a safe environment.

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JULY 25, 2013

When this is recognized by the troops, it illustrates how savvy the leader is and it helps to calm the environment even more. It may look and feel differently based on the organization or work environment you’re in. The excitement in our environment paled in comparison and he seemed less than enthusiastic about applying his skills.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2014

I’m all for creating and maintaining a work environment where people can feel like winners, have a high degree of autonomy, and enjoy the people they work with. Coming to work should not feel like going to the dentist to get a root canal. But should work be “fun”?

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 27, 2015

Her answer was delivered as enthusiastically as the work environment that was palpable in each of this company’s restaurants that I have visited. Knowing what to expect within our work environment required every firefighter to always dress for success. Is this something you are trained to do?” We learn that in training!”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

Treat Employees As Your Primary Customers Create a safe, inspiring, respectful work environment of trust, giving your employees the opportunity to apply their knowledge, skills, and hearts to serve the team and organizational constitution daily. I suggest these three integrated approaches. Test new approaches. Learn and test again.

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OCTOBER 10, 2013

In addition, sparking conversations with others will create an environment of open dialogue where expectations are clearer and personal responsibility rises—an environment with more engaged employees who help create more loyal customers. About the author: Gregg Lederman is an author, speaker, and CEO.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2018

Simple communication on why I was on the floor, paired with their conveyed worries, allowed for better understanding and encouraged a greater team environment. He is noted for his comprehensive execution skills in both high-growth and distressed environments.

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MARCH 5, 2019

Guest post from Yvette Bethel : Within each organization exists an ecosystem that extends beyond its boundaries into the external environment. Because we coexist in unpredictable and ambiguous local and global environments, longevity has been a more pronounced business imperative.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Does your course foster a group-based learning environment? Typical executive education courses operate on some combination of lectures, exercises, and an interactive group-based learning environment. As the article above also points out, these group-based learning environments also lend themselves to smaller networks.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Let me explain: Remember how, as individuals, we are able to react to the changing environment fairly quickly? First, you need to create a new environment, and you need to populate it with a group that’s motivated by a shared sense of urgency around a big vision. And there’s a pretty logical reason for that. How do you do this?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Other team members are not enthused about what they’ll experience in your team’s work environment. They must create a work environment that enables team members to apply their knowledge and skills in service to the team’s performance standards. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves. Add your comments below.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

They have to be aware of their environment and look for signals. Robust discovery is to uncover the great ideas that are percolating in the organization and beyond. Pragmatic leaders have to be explorers. They have to have to confidence to seek out partners—both internal and external to the organization—to engage in deeper exploration.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 7, 2015

In order to lead effectively in an increasingly VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) business environment, today’s leaders need to develop the ability to build collaborative relationships.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 12, 2015

Regardless of what kind of company you may work in, there is plenty a leader can do to create an environment where employees are encouraged to be innovative. While that may be true to some extent, it frustrates me that these managers don’t seem to understand that in the eyes of their employees, they are they company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 10, 2018

Before jumping into solutions for the project, establish a relationship of trust that will allow you to be more comfortable with each other—it’s especially important for an employee to feel comfortable and able to express their opinions and ideas with their superiors (creating that kind of environment is just great leadership).

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 4, 2018

He most likely does not have had a high paying career as a cashier, but he does create a joyful work environment! was the next line in his obviously many-times-rehearsed “show,” and he smiled and laughed as he finished up. On a daily basis, can you say that your job brings you joy?

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Executive coaching gives individuals a distinct advantage in a competitive ever-changing environment by helping them increase their influence and effectiveness as leaders; enhance their political savvy. This ongoing attention to the work environment protects executives from potential power plays that can rob them of their power or position.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Even in a transparent environment, you still need to set and follow a communications strategy, filtering your messages by audience, relevance and timing. To be clear, being transparent doesn’t mean opening the information floodgates.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Speed – Not Always the Answer In a global environment of rapid change, “better and faster” dominates the agenda in the boardroom. Moreover, experience provides leaders with the confidence to employ counterintuitive decisions and tune out the chorus of people thinking and/or saying, “what the hell is s/he thinking?”

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this high performing environment you will witness employee pride in working for a reputable organization. If you have leadership responsibilities or are concerned with human resource management and are recruiting or promoting your next tranche of leaders, look for the qualities outlined in this short article.

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JUNE 6, 2013

This was the first of many leadership lessons to come, proving that company culture is among the most important environments for a leader to evaluate and create. It’s led me to memorable partnerships where my needs, skills, and passions are aligned to serve people in a nutrient-rich environment. It’s simple, but powerful.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

This is not the environment you want. For example, if a good employee demands a raise and says that he will quit if he doesn’t get one, many times it is better to let that person quit. If he gets a raise, everyone will know that they can threaten to quit if they want a raise. You have to return telephone calls.

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